On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:34:43 +0200 (CEST) local10 <loca...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> Aug 30, 2018, 11:15 AM by nemomm...@gmail.com: > > > I hope it's faster than the previous releases. It was/is dog slow. > > > What do you do with Firefox that it's so slow? Firefox has lots of > problems but its speed was never a problem for me, even on older PCs. Well, the first time I installed and loaded it under Wheezy, its start up was so slow, I thought it had failed or was broken. (We are talking about Firefox ESR from the Debian repo.) But it finally sauntered onto the screen. Now, we aren't talking a LONG time. Not minutes. Just many extra seconds. About 2 to 3 times longer than I was accustomed to. To make a long story short, after some testing, I determined it wasn't my system. ESR was just plain slow. Period! Others who used it on other variously configured systems reported the same. But that was okay. I just used it to download Google Chrome which is my primary browser. ESR was always intended as a back up. Later, when Firefox Quantum was released, I installed it for that purpose. Fast. On par with Chrome. No complaints. > In my experience people who complain about Firefox speed are just not > bright enough to install Noscript and/or Ublock Origin, so they load > 15+ different tracking scripts for every page they open, so yeah, in > this case perhaps it is slow. Such things may contribute, but nevertheless, all things being equal, Firefox ESR was just slow with everything. I even tested it with a locally stored web site with and without an Internet connection. Still slow. Later releases showed some improvement. But compared to Chrome or Quantum ... Well, there's no comparison. B
